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Show Moss Proposes Guard Build Road in Utah Scenic Area Senator Frank E. Moss of Utah has urged the building by the Utah National Guard of a road to link Escalante in the scenic mountainous area of Garfield County to Hite on the Colorado River. He wrote Governor George D. Clyde, C. Taylor Burton, director of the Utah Highway Department, Depart-ment, and General Maxwell E Rich, Guard commander, praising prais-ing other work done by the National Na-tional Guard. Mr. Moss pointed out that the Department of the Interior has recommended against passage of Sen. Bennett's bill to authorize a road linking national parks and monuments in Utah. Assistant Secretary John A. Carver wrote that there "were oustanding areas" in other states as well as Utah which it might be feasible to "link with parkway park-way connections," but that "we have not surveyed or studied the merits or feasibility of the project,"and that "enactment of the bill at this time would not be expedient." In his letter to the above, the senator said: "It seems to me, therefore, that Utah should begin at once to build a connecting scenic road. Why would it not be provident for the state to start developing the road in which we are interested inter-ested with the resources we now have? I suggest for example that the engineers of the Utah National Na-tional Guard might be assigned during their annual two weeks of summer duty, first to survey some of the unbuilt road which would eventually become part of I a scenic loop, and later to grade it. We are all familiar with the excellent work which the Guard did over Guardsmen's Pass the road from Brighton to Heber and I know that they have also made other similar contributions to Utah's network of roads. "Recently leaders of the Five County Organization in Southern South-ern Utah made a trip by jeep from Escalante to Hite, and I believe there is rather general agreement that the unbuilt section sec-tion of the proposed road should be located along the route this group took. Why not, therefore, chart out a surveying project for the Guard on this proposed road with the idea that once the definite defi-nite route is settled upon and the rights of way cleared the Guard will start grading and constructing a road. "Once there is a road there, then it could be put on the state system, for federal aid under the present formula in which the federal government provides 53 per cent of funds and the state 47 per cent. The fact that the present formula allows the federal fed-eral government to contribute over half of the funds to federal aid roads will enable us to se- cure substantial federal support for a southern Utah scenic road far in advance of the time we would have any chance of getting get-ting additional help for construction construc-tion of a parkway. A lie has always a certain amount of weight with those who wish to believe it. Rice. Twenty per cent of American families own 1.2 cats each. The veiled Tuaregs of the Sahara Sa-hara never bathe. Wind driven sand scours their bodies. Russian children go to school six days a week, ten months a year, and face five hours of home work an evening, according to one child specialist's observations. Nothing short of our own errors should offend us. Mary Baker Eddy. |